Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing
Michaelmas Term Week 3:
Tuesday 23 October 2012
4.45pm (refreshments) for 5.15pm
Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
Anna Beer:
“Johnny and Bess: Narrative and Gender”
Anna Beer is the author of two biographies: Bess: The Life of Lady Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter and John Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot. Her talk will consider issues of gender and narrative in life-writing from different eras up to and including the present, and address the sometimes complex relationship between writer, (biographical) subject and reader.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan